Physical interaction design DH2400

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Here is a very interesting blog from Hannah Perner-Wilson, with a great DIY section. With almost only conductive thread and neoprene she teaches you how to create your own bend sensors, pressure sensors, simple buttons and so on.

There is a lot of videos and explanations, and all her code is available for free (even the Processing applications she uses to demonstrate her sensors).


A picture of a home made bend sensor:



A video of simple fabric buttons:

Here is a video I showed to the "make_music_with_random_objetcs_of_the_everyday_life" group. Very simple (except it needs to be plugged to real electricity) but still fun.


BoxBeat from Karl D.D. Willis on Vimeo.

Open house of an interesting centre of excellence, registration to 23 feb.

I played around yesterday night with sunspots for the first time.

Some experiences:

* Sunspot manager is a good tool for making things simpler, eg upgrade the physical sunspots, tutorials, docs etc
* Netbeans plugins makes the work simple cause it gives use the option "build and deploy on sunspot"
* Dont forget to setup some permissions in the shell (if you're using mac):

sudo mkdir /var/lock
sudo chgrp uucp /var/lock
sudo chmod 775 /var/lock
sudo niutil -appendprop / /groups/uucp users

I missed this step and my Sunspot Apps only gave me weird error messages. The last row seem to be different in OSX 10.5

A funny idea from this Australian, Kyle Downes. No phidgets inside, but 4 big buttons and a D-pad that made me think about our projects. Here are some pictures about the wood structure and the 'A' & 'B' buttons, and a video of the final result.

Take a look at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/10/BAF214L2I2.DTL to see what students at Berkeley are doing in a similar course as ours.